(Topic ID: 96729)

Mystery Gottlieb Tilt Wire

By gradient9

9 years ago



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#1 9 years ago

I was recently swapping out a bad lamp socket in my Spider-man and noticed this wire was disconnected on the tilt switch on the inside left of the machine. The machine works 100% without it connected so I assume this just deactivates this tilt switch. Any ideas?

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#2 9 years ago

Actually with that wire disconnected, you have no plumb bob tilt.

#3 9 years ago

Yeah that's for the roll tilt. A smaller pinball goes in the rail and rolls in the track. If someone tries to pick the game up from the front, the ball rolls back, hits the switch and resets the game (like a slam tilt). You can leave it disconnected, but I'd solder it back as I don't like random wires flopping around as it could accidentally touch a coil lug and send power to the switch matrix and destroy the MPU.

You need to add the tilt bob to your tilt at the lower right though.

#4 9 years ago

Yikes! That was my thought too, I don't like a random loose wire floating in there. I wonder if the previous owner had issues with it and just disconnected it rather than trying to troubleshoot. I'm hoping I have an extra tilt bob and clip sitting around. If not, I'll get one from PBR.

Thank you for the quick help!

8 months later
#5 9 years ago

Finally got around to fixing this issue last night. The roll tilt still worked with it disconnected so it was definitely the plumb bob tilt. I added the tilt bob as well so the assembly is complete now. I also found a disconnected wire on the coin door slam so I soldered that one together as well.

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